Getting around London

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What we will cover:

• Different types of ticket

• Student discount

• Underground

• Bus

• London Overground

• Cycling and walking

• Taxis

Transport for London website

Transport zones

What ticket should I buy?

Oyster card:

Cash/Paper

ticket:

Types of Oyster card

1: Season ticket (weekly / monthly / annual)

2: Pay-as-you-go (“Prepay”)

Season ticket

• Weekly / monthly / annual

• Best for regular transport-users (4+ days per week?)

• Qualifies for 30% student discount

• Price according to how many zones needed

• Renew at tube stations, many shops, and on-line

Prepay (pay-as-you-go)

• £5 initial deposit (refundable)

• Good for occasional use

• Pre-load with credit (at stations, shops, online)

• Does not qualify for 30% student discount with Student Oyster

• But some Prepay discounts available to f/t students

• Daily price cap (stops charging you after you have used a certain amount of credit in one day)

• Weekly price cap (as above, after a certain amount spent in a week)

Oyster cards

• Oyster cards are valid on tubes, buses, trams and London Overground

• On trains make sure you touch in, and out again

• On buses, touch in only

• You can combine Season Ticket and Prepay on one Oyster card:

For example, you can have a monthly Oyster for zone 1 & 2, and add some prepay credit for the times when you go into zone 3 or beyond

Contactless payment

• Only if your UK bank card has the contactless symbol

• Can be used in the same way as Prepay Oyster card on buses and on the tube

• Will calculate how much you have spent in a day / week and will stop charging you once you reached the cap for the day

• Make sure you use the same card to enter and exit the station (on bus you just touch once)!

Student Discount

• 30% discount applied to weekly / monthly / annual Oyster card season ticket

• You apply on-line via TfL website, application is then validated by LSHTM

• Full-time students are eligible

• LSHTM will also validate part-time students’ applications (because studying 15+ hours per week)

• LSHTM will validate applications (automatically) from Wednesday 28 September onwards

• Application then takes up to 2 weeks to process by TfL

Student Discount

To apply you will need:

• A colour, digital photo

• Your LSHTM student ID number (from your ID card/applicant reference)

• A UK/London address

• A valid debit or credit card to pay the £20 fee

• An active, valid email address

• Apply on-line at www.tfl.gov.uk

Underground

(the Tube)

• Safe

• Quick

• Reliable (usually)

• Crowded at peak times:

(07:30 – 09:30 and 16:30 – 19:00)

• Majority of services run from around 05:30 to 00:00

Night tube

• Friday and Saturday nights on 5 lines

• Tube approx. every 10 to 20 minutes

• Travelcards can be used until 04:30am on the following day

• Off-peak fares charged

Buses

• Slow!

• Cheap

• Great way to see London for £1.50

• Please remember you cannot use cash to pay for your bus fare!

• Lots of phone apps to check times

• Hopper fare allows you to change buses once within 60 minutes for £1.50 fare

Good bus routes

for sightseeing

From Gower Street, right by the School (heading south)

# 10: Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Royal Albert Hall, Harrods

# 14: Piccadilly Circus, Green Park, Victoria & Albert Museum

# 24: Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square,

Horseguards Parade, Parliament Square, Westminster Abbey

Night buses

All night Buses start with the letter N.

For help in finding your Night bus home, call the 24-hour London Travel Information line on 0343 222 1234

London

Overground

• Distinctive orange branding

• Modern trains (with a/c)

• Fast and reliable

• Less frequent than tube

• Avoids Central London

Cycling

• Quick and inexpensive

• Cycle lanes: improving but a bit patchy

• Risk of bike theft is high: buy a good lock!

• Check out BUG (LSHTM’s Bicycle Users Group) for advice and info such as free cycle training –web link on LSHTM intranet

• www.londoncyclist.co.uk for advice on buying a used bike

TfL Cycle Hire Scheme

• Occasional use or yearly membership

• 20% off yearly membership for students

• Occasional use: use debit or credit card to get a “release code”

• Pay as little as £2 (for up to 30 min)

• Nearest docking stations to LSHTM : Malet Street or Alfred Place (off Store Street)

• Further info: TfL website

Cyclist road signs

Shared cycle routes No bicycles

Cycle lane ahead

Cycle safety

• HGVs (trucks etc) have been involved in 53% of London cyclist deaths in the last four years

• 9 cyclists were killed in London in 2015

• In that year, 600,000 cycle journeys were made each day in London

Walking

• Jaywalking (crossing the road when the man is red) is not an offence in the UK

• But take care in all cases!

• Remember we drive on the left!

Taxis

Black cabs

• The only type of taxi legally allowed to pick up passengers on the street

• Can also be pre-booked (see TfL website)

Mini cabs

• Normal passenger cars

• Licensed by Transport for London

• Must be pre-booked

A black cab

More “black” cabs:

Minicabs

• Licensed by Transport for London

• Look like normal cars

• Must be pre-booked

• It is illegal for minicabs to pick up customers in the street

• CABWISE: Transport for London’s free app (finds nearest licenced minicabs)

• Or text CAB to 60835

Going further...

• 16 - 25 Railcard for anyone aged 16 - 25

• Also available to full-time students aged 26+

• ⅓ off rail fares anywhere in the UK

• Costs £30 for the year

• Apply on-line: www.16-25railcard.co.uk

• Or collect hard copy form from a rail station (e.g. Kings Cross, Euston, Waterloo, Victoria)

• £12 minimum fare if travelling before 10 a.m. weekdays

Tips…

• National rail tickets are released 12 weeks in advance – you can save a lot if you book far ahead

• London – Edinburgh (return) in Reading Week: £61

• Same trip leaving tomorrow: £120

• Rail prices tend to be less if you travel back same day

• Example: London – Cambridge “day return” = £16.50

• If you return the next day, it’s double that or more

Other ways to

save £££• Group Save: up to 4 adults travelling together can

travel for the price of in London/South East England

• Great destinations include: Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Canterbury, Oxford, Stratford-upon-Avon

• Off-peak travel only (after 10:00)

• NB “off-peak” has different meanings depending on whether it’s national rail, or TfL!!

Recap:

Types of Oyster card

1: Season ticket (weekly / monthly / annual)

2: Pay-as-you-go (“Prepay”)

Oyster Prepay

discountThe 16 - 25 Railcard also entitles holders to:

• 34% discount on Oyster Pre-Pay fares

• 34% discount on Oyster Pre-Pay daily price cap

• Applies to TfL off-peak travel only

• TfL off-peak = any time after 09:30 Monday to Friday, and all day Saturday / Sunday

• *TfL Off-peak = any time after 09:30, plus weekends

Daily cap (off-peak*)without 16-25 Railcard

With 16-25 Railcard

Zone 1 - 2 £6.60 £4.35

Zone 1 - 3 £7.70 £5.10

Zone 1 -4 £9.50 £6.25

How do I link my

railcard to my Oyster

card?

• You need to take your Oyster card and your 16-25 Railcard to an Underground ticket office, Overground ticket office or National Rail ticket office

• Ask the staff member clerk to add your 16-25 Railcard discount entitlement to your Oyster card. It will be valid until the expiry of the 16-25 Railcard.

Next steps

• Obtain your digital photo for TfL student discount card (check photo requirements on TfL website)

• Submit your student discount application to TfL on-line

• Buy a full-price Oyster card to keep you going for the next 2 weeks

• Once registered on your course, apply for the 16-25 Railcard

• Get your apps: CabWise, Uber app, bus etc

• Start booking ahead for UK rail trips!